Weeds

I planned to support No-mow-May this year keeping the front garden un-cut. However, next door and across the road are up for sale, and I didn't think it right for prospective buyers to see their neighbour's front lawn looking very unkempt (well tattier than it usually is!)

I have left a quarter circle arc unmown near the front door and today lay on my tummy to watch the bugs meandering around and over the daisy forest that has emerged (along with a few other wild flowers/weeds) since the start of the month.

Wild flower gardens are lovely, but I know of some who see them as weed patches and are not be too happy to have seedlings of wild flowers/weeds emerging through their driveways and manicured flower beds. Aren't nature and neighbourhoods fun to see together!!

[Anne]

Very thoughtful Jackie, but could you just have put a little sign up?!! Loving the daisies, a very underrated flower I think!

[Joan Robillard]

How considerate of you, lovely capture

[Susan Wakely]

This is so pretty. Are you on commission for the house sales?

[katy]

Lol! @wakelys makes a good point.

I really like the low POV on this one and appreciate your sacrifice for getting down so low for this fantastic photo. And superb composition through the grasses and a fantastic photo all the way around FAV

[Esther Rosenberg]

What a fantastic idea to keep a small section unmoved. The bugs must love you! Great low POV.

[Cazzi]

I love the daisies in my lawn and have lots of buttercups in the flower bed. Great pov and I bet those bugs were looking at you wondering what on earth you were doing?

[KoalaGardens🐨]

so pretty

[Pyrrhula]

Love those daysies in our garden. I`m not allowed to trim the grasses as they bloom.

[Kathy]

Lovely wildflowers in the grass.

[Call me Joe]

❤️💕❤️

[Valerie Chesney]

Such a lovely wild flower/daisy/not weed capture Jackie, a wonderful perspective.. I could not lay down on my tummy ha-ha ..

[wendy frost]

Lovely to see your pretty daisy patch. My daughter has mowed around my patches of daisies for me and look lovely from a distance.

[narayani]

Gorgeous shot and I love the idea of no mowing!

[LManning (Laura)]

Love your DOF here.

[Shutterbug]

I love a belly shot. Very nice focus and dof on this also.

[amyK]

Lovely dof on this

[Kathy A]

Great belly shot

[JackieR]

@kjarn neighbours looked worried!!
@amyk new macro lens !!
@shutterbug49 thank you
@ljmanning my favourite style
@narayani me too, but even I couldn't have coped with it ankle high all month
@wendyfrost that's kind of her
@happysnaps I struggled to get up!
@joemuli ta
@randystreat and bird doooo do!
@pyrrhula good to hear you are being nagged
@koalagardens they are. @serendypyty you think??
@dutchothotmailcom hope so
@grammyn @wakelys I'm not no!! Hoping new neighbours chop down dead laburnum though!
@joansmor considerate to bugs??
@365anne that would entail much more effort!!

[Joan Robillard]

No - considerate to the neighbors trying to sell. Our no mow may came to an end yesterday. My niece's husband does the mowing and he asks all the time if he can mow. Well, many people in town have been mowing lately so she let him do it. We should have run a contest on how long he could hold out. At least he has my riding mower to get through the tall stuff. I watched some with push mowers and they seemed to have a harder time.

[summerfield]

i hope those neighbours realize what sacrifice to your art you had made. 😜